Alex_87 said:
For editing i like to use acid pro and sound forge. Cool edit pro is for like complete ametuers.
Dance monkey!
I will not sit here and let someone as obviously inexperienced as you tell this forum that Cool Edit Pro is nothing compared to Acid Pro. I have used both and cannot see how someone doesn't become frustrated using acid pro.
Firstly there are no definebale keys. In Cool Edit Pro every single comman can be assigned to a key on the keyboard, allowing for, at many times, doing a complex echo, copy, bass drop all without ever touching the file menu.
The plug ins are quite limited too. Take the reverb or eq plug ins. With cool edit pro you can have up to 31 bands for your tweaking pleasure, Acid's interface is a 4 band with very little configurable options.
Cool Edit has Noise reduction and click/pop elimination for vinyl restoration that a lot of people have come to actually use in their vinyl restoration business. There are hundreds of users out there who have opened up businesses in vinyl restoration relying on the capabilites of Cool Edit. The sad noise reduction plug in's in acid cannot compare.
Cool Edit has a single AND multitrack view. Acid only has a cramped multitrack. You have to export to Sound Forge or another app if you want to actually edit the waveform itself or zoom in to find a ds offset.
Overall Cool Edit is much more configurable and useable than acid. If you want to copy a peice of the waveform to another track you just select the portion that you want and Shift+Drag it to the track that you want. With Acid you have to duplicate the entire track and then crop down the file. It is so annoying. There are TONS of little differences that are like this between Acid and Cool Edit Pro that gives Cool Edit the upperhand. If you do no understand the true capabilities of a program do not speak of it.
Things from 3 band realtime eq's on each track that you can easily drag up or down to adjust, without having to open up a seperate window. defineable rulers to show cd frames/smtpe values.
Cool Edit has a farther range of effects, you have things such as Dynamic, which is a must for any dance/trance remixer, where is that in Acid? YOU CAN'T EVEN SIMPLY REVERSE A FILE IN ACID, just a simple reverse you cannot acheive using that program, and somehow you still think it's better than Cool Edit?
Acid makes things simple, and because of that a lot of the fundamentals of remixing have been lost to all new Acid users. To do edits for example, which Acid makes it very easy to do, you just have to select the portion you want in the
There are some things that Acid has that I wish Cool Edit did. Such as vst support, midi support and the ability to minimize individual tracks and the pitch support on each file, but that is nothing I haven't lived without or to use other programs for, easily, though they are noteworthy to mention with Acid.
I am not a Cool Edit only person, but when compared to Acid Cool Edit beats it to a pulp. Almost every engineer in the radio field uses Cool Edit to make those quick little radio presentations and commericals. It's just that user friendly and they know it. So don't come here and tell everyone about Acid when you probably like it because it beatmatches for you. Go and learn both programs in depth and then come back and give true advice, not empty comments like the one your provided.
